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Last updated on 2023-01-07.

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Pocholo Arangote

-Aspiring Cyber-Security Professional studying Information Systems Security at Sheridan College.

-Extensive experience mentoring and coaching students of all ages as a Swim Instructor and Volunteer.

-Proven experience as an Offensive Security Analyst, performing penetration testing on clients’ systems via Network and Web Application exploitation.

-In-class experience with Risk Assessment, Security Controls, and Penetration Testing/Ethical Hacking.

-Customer-focused approach to the analysis and protection of clients and their systems.

-Effective communication skills with both non technical and technical people.

-Fluent in English, Intermediate in French

Education

Honours Bachelor Cybersecurity

Sheridan College

Oakville, ON

present - 2019

  • Focused on secure software development, network security, and Ethical Hacking
  • Capstone: Enhanced Communication Protocols for ICS/SCADA Environment.

Industry Experience

Offensive Security Analyst

Packetlabs

Mississauga, ON

Dec 2021 - Aug 2021

  • Assisted penetration testing team in performing multiple types of penetration tests using Burp Suite, Kali Linux, and penetration testing methodologies.
  • Identify security threats, risks, and vulnerabilities on networks and web applications.
  • Audit client website source code for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in Javascript
  • Analyze current software versions, and identify out-of-date software, and associated vulnerabilities
  • Using a variety of GUI based and terminal-based tools, perform penetration tests against client infrastructure and exposed services.
  • Manage and Retest outstanding Client issues.
  • Document and Present technical findings
  • Review Client overall source-code for security and efficiency
  • Document Findings into Client-Facing report.

Team Member. Innovation Accelerator

Sheridan College

Oakville, ON

Aug 2021 - Jun 2021

  • Assigned as Team Project Manager.
  • Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of 4 people to deliver a tailored solution to client.
  • Increase team’s performance through notifications and documents through Microsoft Teams and Whatsapp.
  • Designed and delivered a multi-faceted solution to the challenge proposed by Food for Life via a pitch, and was selected as the winning solution for Food For Life’s challenge.
  • Drafted and kept Meeting Notes through Atlassian Confluence, increasing team’s efficiency and organization.




Selected Articles

Who Builds Their Own Protocols!?1

Personal Website

N/A

2021

  • Analyse a suspicious .pcap file in Wireshark to find a flag. Flag was hidden inside encrypted TLS traffic.
  • CTF Writeup

Bell Threat Intel One Tweet2

Personal Website

N/A

2021

  • Leveraging Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), use the contents of a single message to find the corresponding flag.
  • CTF Writeup